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Idea #11143: Create a simple interface to ACL on Filesystems



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Written by bert.ubuntu the 15 Jul 08 at 04:47. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I will just give an example:

In my personal systems I usually have a partition named "Multimedia" where I store audio, video and pictures. I want some users to have write access to it, so what do I do ?

I created a group named "multimedia" so everyone in this group should be able to write to that directory/partition.

1. I update my fstab (giving acl to reiserfs,xfs, etc.)
2. Remount the partitions with #mount -a -o remount
3. Set the permissions: #setfacl -m g:multimedia:rwx /multimedia
and then I use graphical tool to add users to that group.

It would be nice to make the process (3) using the properties dialog of the folder /multimedia or something similar through nautilus.

EDIT-----------

eiciel is not a solution because it will not let you make a mounted partition acl-enabled without having to manually edit your fstab and remount.

Besides it, eiciel does not integrate transparently in the properties context menu(ie, form Nautilus), which would make it more user friendly.

If you already have ACL's set up , eiciel is a good option.

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Eldmannen wrote on the 15 Jul 08 at 16:31
Does this mean that I can prevent anyone not in the group "porno" to be able to read/mount/access my porno partition?

If so.. then +1

bert.ubuntu wrote on the 15 Jul 08 at 16:39
@eldmannen: yes :-)

FuturePilot wrote on the 16 Jul 08 at 07:52
Perhaps you might want to check Eiciel out.
http://rofi.roger-ferrer.org/eiciel/

bert.ubuntu wrote on the 17 Jul 08 at 05:28
@FuturePilot: People should listen to you :-D

bert.ubuntu wrote on the 17 Jul 08 at 17:34
Ooops, I tried eiciel.It's a good tool but now I know why almost nobody is using it. Please read my edit.

droetker wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 16:29
Look here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ACL-OnByDefault

This was the plan for Edgy.
Now we have hardy.
Time to do something ;-)

The main problem, as I understand, there is no easy way for setting the ACL rights recursively.

droetker wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 16:31
and vote for http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/687/


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